College of Emporia - Alla Rah Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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Henry and Schaff and Felix E. John and George and Clara B. Hugh and Mary and Orville T., Cliff and Martha and Joseph E These compose our Faculty. 17

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The student body as a whole is not so mature as formerly. An element of young- sters has pervaded the school atmosphere, and the evolution for a more perfect understand- ing of College traditions has been slowly working itself out. Some evidences of croak- ing have appeared which affirm that the vaunted college spirit of the olden days is on the wane. Yet the fears for its loss are empty ones, because no stronger manifestations of true college loyalty have ever been shown than during this year. The wild fur-ious exuberance of the football rooter, as existent in other generations, has been transformed into an enthusiastic effort for a worthy cause. This spirit has appeared among the girls. The girls of the school, numbering less than one hundred, have assumed the gigantic task of raising 325,000 for a girls' dormitory. So vigorously have they pushed the matter that 358000 of the money is in sight. Each girl has pwledged 3525 to be raised by her own efforts. The men on the football flclcr do not have their souls tried by harder knocks than those which the girls receive in their daily solicitations for funds. It takes downright grit to hammer away on a project as the girls have done this winter. The success has been so positive that dormitory is bound to be reatilyiif not this yearithen next. The big coup dietat of the year has been the merging of Lewis Academy, of Vvichita, into the College of Emporia. No stroke of business-like administration has occurred in the history of the school which exceeds this one. The addition of Lewis Academy will mean much to the College in many ways. It will insure a first-class academic department, and will correspondingly strengthen the scholarship of the school. It will serve as a feeder for college classes, and will do away with the unnatural relation- ship of preparatory and college students which now exists. It will center the interest and material assistance of one of the richest portions of the state on the College of Emporia. President Culbertson has found that he cannot attend to the duties of his office, and, at the same time, assume the labors of field secretary of the state, doing justice to both. So, a field secretary has been recently secured. Rev. Matthew Frank, of Kansas City. is the man chosen for the place, and his sole business will be to extend the influence of the school over the state. And so the year has passed. A year full of steady progress and uniform advance- ment. The accomplishments of last year showing up brilliantly against a period of two years without a leader, have been exceeded by a term of slower, more natural growth. The endowment fund has received careful attention and is well under way. Athletics, under the direction of a physical trainer, has been given proper incentive and is improv- ing Two intercollegiate debates have been held, and though both were lost, progress was made by this step toward excellence in higher literary training. The Clee Club has again done efficient work, spreading the worth of the College of Emporia in new places. A mark of distinction arises from the fact that this yearis Senior class will send three men to Yale, besides sending other members to seminaries and other schools of higher learning. Our mild boasting is prompted by the spirit of love. In these days, when the keenest sort of competition exists between schools, it is necessary to be up-to-date in every particu- lar. And we, who have spent some of the happiest hours of youth in the halls of the College of Emporia, who have learned the great affection with which one can bless his alma mater, watch with satisfaction this spirit and evidences of improvement. But claims for merit may arise from other than merely material forms of betterment. For other schools may receive better support, but they cannot assume higher idealsg other institu- tions may have larger equipment, but they cannot create a higher type of manhood or womanhoodg other colleges may bear more important names, but they cannot boast of a fresher, purer spiritithe spirit of Western youth-hopeful, high and wholesome. And so we are proud of past achievements, proud of present station, and proud of the purposes of the future. And now here, at this milestone, with our vision fixed on the happy pros- pect of the greening hilfs in the distance, we are beginning to see the true realization of that for which strong men and women have prayed and sacrificed during all the long, hard years of the past. 16

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FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE HENRY COE CULBERTSON President Professor of Bibicai Literature A. B., University of Cincinnati. Student in Columbia University. D. B., University of Chicago. DANIEL C. SCHAFFNER Professor of Natural Sciences A. B., College of Emporia. A. M., University of Michigan. FELIX EMU. HELD Dean Professor of Latin Ph. B. ancl A. B., College of Emporia. Student in University of California. A. M., College of Em- poria. JOHN R. WILKIE Professor of Creek A. B., Center College. A. M., Princeton University. Graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary.